We all know Brad Pitt yearns to be an architect, but are there any Hollywood stars with industrial design leanings? (And I'm not talking about Lady Gaga "designing" a pair of headphones; something tells me she wasn't working the AutoCAD.) When GadgetLab posted a list of "19 Patents Invented by Ingenious Celebrities," I eagerly scoured the list to find anything vaguely ID related.
Closest thing I found was exciting... then disappointing: Steve McQueen, it turns out, designed a bucket seat in 1969, and the patent was granted in '70.
I say disappointing because there isn't a single mention of any functional or ergonomic improvement in the entire filing, which merely describes it as "the ornamental design for a bucket seat." So why'd he design it, just for looks? Was the shape more comfortable?
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